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CARR
Surname or Lastname
English and southern French
English and southern French : from Middle English, Old French car(r)ier (Late Latin carrarius, a derivative of carrum ‘cart’, ‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin); in English an occupational name for someone who transported goods, in French for a cartwright.French : occupational name for a stonemason or quarryman, carrier.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Carroll, CARROL means "hacker."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name, from Middle English, Old French messag(i)er ‘carrier of messages’ (an agent derivative of message, Late Latin missaticum, from missus ‘sent’).
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : occupational name denoting a servant who carried the ewer to guests at table so that they could wash their hands, Anglo-Norman French and Middle English ewerer (related to ewere ‘jug’), with the French definite article l’.Cornish : variant of Flower 4.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, northern Middle English kerr (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed’, ‘left-handed’.Irish : see Carr.This surname has also absorbed examples of German Kehr.
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Careen, possibly CARREEN means "beloved" or "friend."Â
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ciarán, CARRAN means "little black one."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : apparently an occupational name for a tipstaff or beadle who carried a long staff as a badge of office; perhaps also a nickname for a very tall, thin man, or even an obscene nickname for a man with a long sexual organ. The surname is found chiefly in northeastern England.
Female
English
English pet form of French Caroline, CARRIE means "man."
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English
English : from Old French carrel, ‘pillow’, ‘bolster’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of these.In some cases perhaps an altered spelling of Irish Carroll. In other cases perhaps an altered spelling of French Carrel.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places: Carrow in Norfolk or Carraw in Northumberland. The first is thought to be named from Old English carr ‘rock’ (a Celtic loan word) + hÅh ‘spur of a hill’, while the last may be named either from an Old British plural of carr, or from carr + Old English rÄw ‘row’.Possibly in some cases a reduced form of the Cornish surname Nancarrow.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Carr.Hungarian (Kér) : one of the eight ancient Hungarian tribal names from the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian basin. The Kér tribe, led by a chief called Vata settled in what is now known as Békés county, but King Steven I resettled the tribe in royal estates, far away from their original residence. Thus the 42 villages named after the Kér tribe are scattered around in Hungary.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : apparently an occupational name for a tipstaff or beadle who carried a long staff as a badge of office; perhaps also a nickname for a very tall, thin man, or even an obscene nickname for a man with a long sexual organ. The surname is found chiefly in northeastern England.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English love(n), luve(n) ‘to love’ + lavedi ‘lady’. Reaney describes this as an obvious nickname for a philanderer; but perhaps it denoted a man who loved a woman above his social status, given the connotation of high status carried by the word lavedi.
Boy/Male
Scandinavian
Son of Carr.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Cearbhall, CARROLL means "hacker."
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Carrie, CARRY means "man."Â
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Greek
Greek : variant spelling of Caras.English : habitational name from any of several places called Carr House or Carrhouse (examples of which are found in northern counties including Cheshire and Yorkshire), from Middle English kerr ‘wet ground’ or ‘brushwood’ (Old Norse with kjarr; see Kerr) + h(o)us ‘house’ (Old English hūs).
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire) called Carrington, probably named with an unattested Old English personal name CÄra + -ing- denoting association + tÅ«n ‘settlement’.Scottish : habitational name from a place in Midlothian named Carrington, probably from Old English CÄ“riheringa-tÅ«n ‘settlement of CÄ“rihere’s people’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Germanic personal name Lanzo, originally a short form of various compound names with the first element land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (for example, Lambert), but later used as an independent name. It was introduced to England by the Normans, for whom it was a popular name among the ruling classes, perhaps partly because of association with Old French lance ‘lance’, ‘spear’ (see 2).French : metonymic name for a soldier who carried a lance, or a nickname for a skilled fighter, from Old French lance.
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n.
A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.
v. t.
To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
n.
A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
n.
One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
v. t.
To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
v. i.
To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
v. i.
To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
pl.
of Carry
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Carry
v. t.
To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
v. t.
To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.
a.
Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.
v. i.
To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
n.
That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
n.
One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
n.
A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.
a.
Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
v. t.
To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.
imp. & p. p.
of Carry